Why don't the reporter reveal more details about the "strange peak in data usage"?
The news could be less lame if published from a non-formal-colonizer country.
How China Spied on the African Union’s Computers
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#12I'd tear down the whole building; as I'd be very surprised if the walls weren't full of bugs as well, similar to the American Embassy case. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-c...
China also helped building headquarter for Vietnam Ministry of Public Safety http://mapio.net/pic/p-57003656/
The rumour is that this build is full of bugs in the walls and everywhere, so that the Ministry is still using their old building, the new one is only for unimportant paperwork.
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#13>China built and paid for the African Union’s computer network I guess the old saying applies, "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product."
China also built the UK government network hopefully the UK, the end result is also likely similar despite the UK paying quite a bit for it. On the works here is for China to build the next generation of nuclear reactors in the UK let’s see how will that turn out.
And the phone in your pocket storing some of your most sensitive data is most likely built in China.
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#14Seems silly to exfiltrate the data during a quiet time instead of a busier time of day where it should go unnoticed? "Hidden in plain sight"
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
China also built the UK government network hopefully the UK, the end result is also likely similar despite the UK paying quite a bit for it. On the works here is for China to build the next generation of nuclear reactors in the UK let’s see how will that turn out.
And the phone in your pocket storing some of your most sensitive data is most likely built in China.
But but but it’s designed in California :(
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#16>China built and paid for the African Union’s computer network I guess the old saying applies, "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product."
No wonder the US pressured Verizon to stop selling Huawei phones completely. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/verizon-i...
I can feel the tensions between the West and China heating up notch by notch now.. It's a bit uncomfortable.
I even feel a personal dampening on what I will say publicly about China on social media, just because of hypothetical tech/travel opportunities, and I don't even live there.
The CCP banned hip hop music in the country the other day, and they're pressuring the Hong Kong courts to make guilty rulings against democracy dissidents: https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-attacks-hong-kongs-rule...
It feels like there could possibly be more larger scale problems going forward and I'm slightly jittery.
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#17When will Africa realise that they have to learn to look out for themselves because no-one else will?
They declined Europe's "offer" (though realistically Europe really didn't have anything to offer its colonies after being devastated by WWII), but where they that much better off under Soviet influence and are they that much better off under China? It's time they started working towards real independence instead of always trying to chase the next free lunch.
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#18>China built and paid for the African Union’s computer network I guess the old saying applies, "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product."
No wonder the US pressured Verizon to stop selling Huawei phones completely. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/verizon-i... I can feel the tensions between the West and China heating up notch by notch now.. It's a bit uncomfortable. I even feel a personal dampening on what I will say publicly about China on social media, just because of hypothetical tech/travel opportunities, and I don't even live th…
Don't blindly apply what works in the US to China.
The difference in population/social structure and a hundred other things, result in different approaches. Just like a pride of lions surrounded by a herd of wildebeest work differently to what happens inside an ant hill.
Sure the ants have conquered every nook of the world, that doesn't mean every animal on the serangeti has to start getting jittery.
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#19When will Africa realise that they have to learn to look out for themselves because no-one else will? They declined Europe's "offer" (though realistically Europe really didn't have anything to offer its colonies after being devastated by WWII), but where they that much better off under Soviet influence and are they that much better off under China? It's time they started working towards real independence instead of a…
Well that's exactly what the African Union is for.
The poverty trap right now is:
1) Loan from the IMF
2) Restructure your debt = privatization = loss of sovereignty and control
3) Repeat
The hope is that through a regional central bank, regional investment bank and a regional monetary fund they can break away from the shackles of predatory psycopaths like the IMF and the World Bank.
I personally think this will not actually succeed and neocolonial powers will do everything in their power so the union does not succeed.
For example, UNASUR, the Latin American equivalent of African Union, is dead on arrival because of corruption. The president pro-tempore, Macri, doesn't seem to be representing regional interests at all.
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#20Seems silly to exfiltrate the data during a quiet time instead of a busier time of day where it should go unnoticed? "Hidden in plain sight"
It seems they already learned that lesson. Now.